I just installed two new 2024/25 production UK made Vintage 30's...

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My 90’s v30’s are the antithesis of boxy. The mids are smooth and balanced. Almost scooped. Very pleasant. I would never call them boxy.

I had a Mesa Tradituonal 412 with v30’s. Didn’t care for those compared to my 90’s v30’s.

what year is/was the Mesa Trad.?

 

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My 90’s v30’s are the antithesis of boxy. The mids are smooth and balanced. Almost scooped. Very pleasant. I would never call them boxy.

I had a Mesa Tradituonal 412 with v30’s. Didn’t care for those compared to my 90’s v30’s.

The mesa traditional cabs sound a bit boxy in general IMO. The Standard cabs are a bit more balanced to my ears, but not quite as tight sounding. The year makes a big difference too with the speakers.

Are your 90's V30's late 90's?

 

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The mesa traditional cabs sound a bit boxy in general IMO. The Standard cabs are a bit more balanced to my ears, but not quite as tight sounding. The year makes a big difference too with the speakers.

Are your 90's V30's late 90's?

i agree with this. The trad. is very low mid heavy, so if i use a low mid heavy voicing with my Diezel VHX it get's boxy, not so much with a 1960BV

 

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I loaded my second cab with these new V30’s today. Same cab as my primary. So the cabs are identical. I A/B’d both quads of V30’s.

I don’t love them. Compared to my 90’s UK V30’s, they are much more stuffy in the low midrange. Not balanced sounding like the 90’s. The new ones have more low end because of the low mids. But you cannot dial it out with the bass control. It’s a frequency that sits between the bass and mid controls. You’d need an eq to dial it out. I won’t be changing out my 90’s V30’s.

Granted these new ones aren’t broken in. But that’s my experience.

I did try the new ones in my workshop and they sound really good in there. That room is insanely bright because there’s so many hard surfaces. They seemed to balance out there and the mids grind hard. So they need a brighter environment to sound the best. I’ll likely leave them in my workbench cab for now.

Finally installed mine. They are definitely a lot darker than the 2006 variants I have. While the 2006 have a bit more fizz, they sound better to my ears in a mix.

Im going to play with the 24s for awhile and give them a chance to break in and see what that yields. They pair really well with the 2006 though.

I havent put a mic up to the 8ohm 2022s and 2024s in my Mills 4x12 but that cab now seems less dark after removing the neo creams. That makes absolutely no sense to me but maybe it was the sensitivity difference between the v30s and Neo creams. The cab is loaded with 4 v30s. 2 from 2022 and 2 from 2024. Ill test more this weekend. Ive been slammed with work.